CK Group are recruiting for a Product Owner, to join a leading provider of advanced analytics, research and technology solutions to the life sciences industry, on a contract basis for 12 months. Salary: Paying up to £38.28 per hour PAYE (inside IR35). Product Owner Role: To interface with the offering managers and commercial owners to translate core business and customer requirements into product requirements. Acting as the bridge between business and developers to help the team to drive maximum product value. Manage product backlog helping offering managers and key stakeholders to prioritise user stories, while working in an agile development cycle. Work with the offering managers and business sponsors to define acceptance criteria for all user stories. Identify and escalate risks and issues to the project manager throughout the project lifecycle. Your Background: Bachelor's degree or equivalent At least 3 years experience as product owner, business and/or systems analysis in an agile product development environment. Have experience with agile development methodologies like Scrum or Kanban. Demonstrated ability to understand client requirements and as well as underlying infrastructure applications, systems, and processes to enable execution of those skills. UX and/or SQL skills are desirable, as is data experience, or pharmaceutical sector working experience. Company: Our client offers research services and technology solutions in the life sciences industry. With just under 100,000 employees, the company has operations in over 90 countries worldwide. Our client’s ambitions involve optimising results of innovations using artificial intelligence. They believe in utilising data collected to the maximum rather than focussing on gathering lots of information: they use artificial intelligence to do this. Location: This role is based at our client’s site in Paddington, London. Apply: It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference (Apply online only) in all correspondence. Please note: This role may be subject to a satisfactory basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. If this position isn't suitable but you are looking for a new role, or if you are interested in seeing what opportunities are out there, head over to our LinkedIn page (cka-group) and follow us to see our latest jobs and company news